marginalized groups. In particular, adolescent girls, adult women and working children are particularly excluded owing to issues of access. This sense of exclusion is further exacerbated by the irrelevance of mainstream education to the socio-economic and contextual learning needs of marginalized groups that directly impacts issues of enrollment and retention. Moreover for the most part, the curriculum employed in mainstream schooling, instills a learning framework informed more by nationalist and religious proclivities then contextual relevance.
In this respect, the Sindh Education Foundation is a leading advocate and practitioner in educational innovations. The Foundation believes that education should be a largely participative process in which communities determine their learning needs, both in terms of content and access in order to ensure that the form of education being imparted is relevant to their contextual needs.
In this regard, the Sindh Education Foundation has launched two programs, which namely are the Child Labor Education Program (CLEP) and the Women Literacy and Empowerment Program (WLEP).
